On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
I think this list would be created at release time and ship with the tor binaries/source.
That gives a build person a lot of power - should we expect each distro to do it correctly? I trust that you will do a fine job but I'm not sure about others...
We could expect Nick or Roger to do it correctly when they make Tor releases.
Jake,
Remember that the purpose is to help first-time clients, who have never used the Tor network before, fetch their very first consensus. To do that, they'll need addresses to contact bundled into the binary and/or distro without being able to look at a consensus first.